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7. Griffith's Catalogue of tfie Booth Collection at Brighton. 



[Catalogue of Cases of Birds in the Dyke Road Museum, Brighton, 

 giving a few descriptive notes and the localities in which the specimens 

 were found, hy E. T. Booth. With further notes by A. F. Griffith. 

 Fourth Edition. Brighton, 1911.] 



In 1907 (see '' Ibis/ 1907, p. 639) we gave a notice of the 

 third edition of this useful manual ; we have now the 

 pleasure of recording the issue of a fourth edition, of 

 which Mr. Griffith has kindly sent us a copy. Many 

 excellent notes are contained in it, both about each species 

 in general and about the particular specimens of it ex- 

 hibited in the Booth Collection, so that it is fast becoming 

 almost a Manual of British Birds. 



The original Collection made by the late Mr. Booth 

 contained examples of 2.27 species, to which 85 have 

 been added since his bequest was received. Among the 

 specimens recently acquired is a Sooty Tern {Sterna 

 fuliginosa) caught, exhausled, on the rocks near Brigliton 

 on the 24th of April, 1911, and a Gull-billed Tern 

 {S. anglica), also a rare species. We need not lepeat the 

 history of this excellent Collection, but can assure all 

 ornithologists that it is well worth a visit. 



8. Guide to the Animals of the Bible. 



[Guide to the Exhibition of the Animals, Plants, and Minerals men- 

 tioned in the Bible. British Museum (Natural History) Special Guide. 

 No. 5. London, 1911. 74 pp.] 



An Exhibition of the Animals, Plants, and Minerals men- 

 tioned in the Bible was prepared, by order of the Trustees 

 of the British jNIuseum, for the Tercentenary of the Autho- 

 rized Version, which has lately been celebrated. The Col- 

 lection, which has now been removed to one of the bays in 

 the Great Hall of the Natural History Museum at South 

 Kensington, though by no means complete, is worthy 

 of notice. The Zoological objects have been selected, 

 labelled, and arranged by Mr. R. Lydekker, P.R.S., under 

 the general supervision of the Keeper of Zoology. The 

 book now before us is a " Guide " to them. Rather over 

 twenty species of birds are mentioned in the List of 



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